Here are some of the unique things about Brazil that we are enjoying. Most of them we will not be able to see, experience or taste in the USA. A lot of them are firsts for the boys, and they are enjoying every single moment.
A tour bus with the name Curitiba, my beloved home town!
Eating pastel! It´s a pastry filled with a variety of choices, then deep fried! Very yummy!
A parakeet by the restaurant bathroom door!
Guarana! A soda pop made from the guaran berry found in the Amazon!
"Beach vendors"! You can buy anything from sodas, cotton candy, ice cream, cajus to sunglasses ! You never have to leave your beach chair!
Scrapping and eating coconut after drinking it's milk.
Beatles the size of . . . , well you can see!
Our beloved Pinheiro, a common tree in our state of Parana. Yes, you need to tilt your head to get a good look, I could not figure out how to turn it.
And last but not least, and definately most sweet, sugar cane juice!
Of course, there are many other differences that the boys noticed right away. Like that every house has tall fences (you could almost call it a wall), with either barb wires, broken glass, or electric wire on top of it. That there are huge, beautiful houses, right next to small, delapitaded ones. Christian even made the comment, after just a few days here, that the rich people were all whites, and the poor all dark. He said: "Not like back at home where whites and blacks are all the same". I'm glad he sees it that way, I hope every kid in his generation will think like that. However, you can imagine how apparent the social discrepancies are around here.
A tour bus with the name Curitiba, my beloved home town!
Eating pastel! It´s a pastry filled with a variety of choices, then deep fried! Very yummy!
A parakeet by the restaurant bathroom door!
Guarana! A soda pop made from the guaran berry found in the Amazon!
"Beach vendors"! You can buy anything from sodas, cotton candy, ice cream, cajus to sunglasses ! You never have to leave your beach chair!
Scrapping and eating coconut after drinking it's milk.
Beatles the size of . . . , well you can see!
Our beloved Pinheiro, a common tree in our state of Parana. Yes, you need to tilt your head to get a good look, I could not figure out how to turn it.
And last but not least, and definately most sweet, sugar cane juice!
Of course, there are many other differences that the boys noticed right away. Like that every house has tall fences (you could almost call it a wall), with either barb wires, broken glass, or electric wire on top of it. That there are huge, beautiful houses, right next to small, delapitaded ones. Christian even made the comment, after just a few days here, that the rich people were all whites, and the poor all dark. He said: "Not like back at home where whites and blacks are all the same". I'm glad he sees it that way, I hope every kid in his generation will think like that. However, you can imagine how apparent the social discrepancies are around here.
2 comments:
Quantas saudades! You sure made my heart long even more for a trip to Brazil. We are planning to go down to Bellingham tomorrow night if the borders are ok to drop off the little gifts. Send a huge abraco to all, especially little (or shall I say big?) Joao Mauricio. Enjoy another pastel and guarana for me as well as a pizza com queijo catupiri! Yummy!
That bug was sooooooooo big! It looks like it could swallow your whole hand! Did you play with it? From:C&G
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